Grammar Friday

In the questions below, choose the correct answer. (If you’re getting this by email, click on the Grammar Friday headline above to take the quiz.)

The verb tense of the sentence "They will have already taken the test" is which of the following:

future pastpresent perfectfuture perfectfuture

In the sentence "The man often spends his day blaming himself for mistakes he didn't make," the underlined word is which of the following:

personal pronounreflexive pronounreciprocal pronounindefinite pronoun

In the sentence "Mary helped Bill with his homework," the underlined word is which of the following:

objective complementindirect objectdirect objectpredicate noun

In the sentence "Bill looked sad for someone who had just won the lottery," the underlined word is which of the following:

predicate adjectivepredicate nounindirect objectadverb

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